Bloomberg BDH function with ISIN

Question

I have to download historical end of day data for a huge list of stocks. I found on the bloomberg excel add-in the function BDH that is very useful. That is what I need but ther

Answer 1

The problem is that an isin does not identify the exchange, only an issuer.

Let's say your isin is US4592001014 (IBM), one way to do it would be:

• get the ticker (in A1):

  =BDP("US4592001014 ISIN", "TICKER") => IBM
  

• get a proper symbol (in A2)

  =BDP("US4592001014 ISIN", "PARSEKYABLE_DES") => IBM XX Equity
  

  where XX depends on your terminal settings, which you can check on CNDF .

• get the main exchange composite ticker, or whatever suits your need (in A3):

  =BDP(A2,"EQY_PRIM_SECURITY_COMP_EXCH") => US
  

• and finally:

  =BDP(A1&" "&A3&" Equity", "LAST_PRICE") => the last price of IBM US Equity